American
Indian Jewelry: Turquoise, inlay, overlay, and sterling silver
jewelry from the silversmiths of the Navajo Nation, Zuni Pueblo, Hopi
Pueblo, and the other Native American Pueblos of Northern New Mexico
and Arizona.

Navajo Jewelry by Ben
Gorman: Ben Gorman is a Navajo silversmith living near Chinle,
Arizona. Ben created original jewelry designs on special order for
customers of Sunshine Studio since 1995, but is no longer working as a
silversmith.

Books
about Native American Jewelry: We have collected numerous books
about Navajo Jewelry and Pueblo Indian Jewelry. These books are
available for sale and provide an invaluable reference guide for our
customers.

We also have several pages of miscellaneous information. To
see this information, click on the highlighted text below:

Look no further. You'll find it all here at Sunshine Studio -
Santa Fe Indian Traders, a small home-based retail business located in
Santa Fe, New Mexico. We have been operating since 1970, we have been
on the Internet without interruption since 1995, and we are members of
ATADA, Antique Tribal Arts
Dealers' Association, Inc. Buy, sell, or trade, you will be happy
with any deal that you make with us!

Challis and Arch Thiessen in Sunshine Studio Booth at Don
Bennett's Antique American Indian Art Show in Santa Fe, NM, August,
1995

On our Sunshine Studio web site, you will find
antique and contemporary Native American arts and crafts, biographical
sketches of American Indian artists, our biographical sketches of Native American artists, an
illustrated story of the construction of a Navajo
inlay/overlay bracelet, and low prices. This small business has
been on the Internet since 1995, and has been operated from our home in
Santa Fe, New Mexico since 1975. Sunshine Studio is a full member of ATADA, Antique Tribal Arts Dealers
Association, Inc.
.

Our Guarantee: We will accept
the return of any item for full refund within 10 days if returned in
its original condition, no questions asked. We have an unconditional
guarantee on the authenticity of our art. If at any time there is
a question of authenticity verified by a suitably knowledgeable expert,
the item may be returned for a full refund. Shipping and insurance
charges are the responsibility of the customer. For more information,
check our Ordering
and Shipping Information.

Arch Thiessen

Advice on Browsing the Sunshine Studio Web Site

It has come to our attention that some customers
do not fully understand how their browsers work (Netscape or Microsoft
Internet Explorer). All modern browsers store both web pages and images
in a disk cache. Whenever a page is viewed, the browsers retrieve files
from the local cache if the file has not been changed since the last
time it was viewed. A typical Sunshine Studio page requires
approximately 0.5 Mbytes of storage including all images. Most of the
space required is in the images. If the page has been viewed
previously, then all images will be obtained from the cache, speeding
up the retrieval by a very large factor. We therefore recommend that
active, enthusiastic customers who like to compare several sites should
set their disk cache space to the largest value they can afford, say 50
to 500 Mbytes. This will speed up browsing of all sites on the
Internet. On Netscape, the cache is found under
Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Cache. In Microsoft Internet Explorer, these
are called "Temporary Internet Files" which are found under
Files/Tools/Internet Options/General. You should be sure to set the
refresh such that the browser checks the web files against those on the
web at least as often as "once per session" or refresh your page
frequently to be sure that you are seeing the latest version of the
files on your screen.

As an example of how this works in practice,
your browser will need to obtain only the new images from a posting if
the page has been previously stored in a cache. No thinking or
navigation on your part is needed to view the newly posted fetishes as
quickly as possible.

We note also that both Netscape and Microsoft
Explorer have a search function, called "Find in Page" or "Find (on
this page)". If you become familiar with these functions, then you may
search any page to find what you are looking for without learning a new
search function for every site. The Sunshine Studio pages are set up as
a single large page with relatively small thumbnails so that it is
convenient either to browse the page or to search the page to find what
you want. We find it very annoying to have to jump around to navigate
among the multiple pages on some other sites in order to find what we
want.

Please write or e-mail if you need
further assistance with the standard features of your browser in order
to navigate the Sunshine Studio Site.

All Highlighted Text and Images are
Clickable: Click on any of the image or highlighted text in
the index above and you will go to a page devoted to that type of art.
The first image you will see of each item on any of our other pages is
a small "thumbnail". If you are interested, you can click on it and see
a larger, higher resolution image. All images, especially the
high-resolution images will take some time to receive on a 28k modem,
so please be patient. You need only click on thumbnails that are of
interest to you. By clicking on our award logos or business association
logos, you will get further information on these awards or business
associations. If you click on our business card from any page, you will
go directly back to our graphical index to American Indian Art which is
located on the bottom of every page.

Please let us know if there is some way in which
we can help you with your American Indian art. We love the art as we
are collectors ourselves and hope to share our enthusiasm with you. Do
not hesitate to contact us for any reason.